Smoker&#39;s kit



March 5, 1929. J BA1-USTA 1,704,549

sMoKER' s` KIT Filed March 28, 1927 farnebys.

Patented Mar. 5, 1929;

si in Mita@ JOSEPH BATTISTA, OF INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA.

SMOKER S KIT.

l Application inea March-2s, 1927. seriai no, waste.

It is often the case that a person smoking is embarrassed by finding that there is no ash tray or similar receptacle present to receive the ashes and butts of the cigarette or 5 cigars smoked, and it is the purpose ot this invention to supply a conveniently small and compact kit vof such size that it may be carn ried in a pocket about the smokers person, which kit maybe brought out and utilized as an ash and butt receiver and may then be closed, returned to thepocket, and emptied later at a more convenient place.

Such receptacle carries a device for snuffing out the lighted end of the cigarette, and

also a compartment to hold a small box of matches ot the type well known assa'tety,l

matches, the side ofthe box of which matches carries a strip of a chemically impregnated surface over which the match head is scratched to ignite it.

The invention is described more particularly in reference to the accompanying drawing, in which Fig. .1, is a fragmentary side elevation of the kit with the lid partially opened;

Fig. 2, a top plan'view of the kit with the lid opened back;

Fig. 3, a vertical section on the line 3-3 in Fig. 2; Fig. 4, a vertical section on the line 4 4 in Fig. 2; and f Fig. 5, an'end elevation of the kit opposite the hinged end ofthe lid.

Like characters of reference indicate like parts throughout the several views of the drawing. 'f

The kit is a box-like structure formed to have 'a bottom 10, a side wall 11 entirely along one side of the bottom; an end wall 12,

40 -a side wall 13 from the wall 12 along the opposite side to about the centerot the bottoni 10; a partition wall 14 joining the end of the wall 13 across the bottom 10 to the side wall 11 parallel to the end wall 12; and

a front end wall 15 from the side wall 13 across the front of the bottom 10.

rlhis construction leaves an opening bctween the front wall 15 land the partitionf wall 14 from one side only oit the'kit, and

the width between the two walls 14 and 15 is such that a box of matches (not shown) may be slipped therebetween rather tightly so as to be retained'by friction. Y

The front wall l5 is provided with a long window 16 therethrough andk that part of the side wall 11 lying between the walls 14 and 15 has a hole 17 therethrough so as to Apermit the smoker to insert a finger therein to push the box of matches to extend out of the kit from the other side, take a match therefrom, and strike it through the window 1601i the side ot the match box. t Y

TWithin that section of the kit` bounded by the end wall 12, the side walls 11 and 13, and

the wall 14, a receptacle 18, shown'as a cyf lindrical vessel open fi'omthe top, is secured Vto the bottom 10 and serves as a means for permitting a cigarette to be inserted therein and pressed against the bottom 10 to be forced downwardly in a rotatingl manner so as to snufin out or extinguish the cigarette and thereby edectually prevent any annoy- Y ing smoke to arise as would otherwise'be the case were the unsmoked portion .merelydeposited in the kit. |The sectionof thekit soy bounded as above described also serves as a receptacle to receive the ashes from the cigarettes and cigars as they are smoked.

A lid 19 is hinged 'along one edge to the top edge of the wall 12 so that the lid may be folded down to form a cover over the entire top of the kit. Means for securing `the lid Y in theclosed position are provided by the spring tongue 2O extending fromr the lid 19; and the lip 21 pressed outwardly from near the top of the wall 15,0ver which lip 21 the tongue 20 may yieldingly engage.

rlhe two opposite sides of thev lid 19 are turned back Cover the topface to form the` inturned Hanges 22 and 23 for the purpose of permitting identification' or advertisingy cards to be inserted thereunder.

Aixed to the inside, under face of the lid 19 are the cigarette liolderr24 and the cigar holder 25, which twoholders are presented when the lid 19 is opened back as in Fig.,` 2.

`These holders nierelyvserve as convenient places to receive the lighted cigarette or ci.- gar so as to llet the lighted end project out over the asliroceiver of the kit. i

l claim:V As a new article vo",manufacture7 a box' having a base, a rear wallralong the hase, a long side wall entirely along one side of the base, a short sidewall extending from they rear wall along only a part Lof the other side provided for the slidingtherethroughof a iop .of the base whereby a match-box opening is i match-box, said long side Wall having L nof* said Wall extending across the base, and ger openmg opposlte the match-box openholders secured to the under slde of the lld7k lng, a Wallextendmg across the base from Said holders bemg spaced thereon to pass one 10 lthe forward end of the shortsde Wall to the von each side of the snuffer when Jshe lid is opposite side Wall, a 'front Wall along Jche vClosed..l Y base, and a lid hinged to the rear Wall, a Iniestmony whereof I'afx my signature.

d snuffer receptacle secured to the base back JOSEPH BATTISTA. 

